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...contrast, the Columbia core program, which was floated as an option for Harvard, demands that students take five specific classes, a number of courses in a foreign language and physical education, as well as science and non-Western cultures distribution requirements...
...quick lesson before hopping onto the Fung Wah Chinatown bus, Fred Astaire’s Seyyide (“lady” in Arabic) offers Egyptian bellydancing. The modern two-floor studio is located in downtown Boston near Chinatown, and specializes in ballroom dancing. Belly dancing is its sole non-Western offering. Based on the premise that bellydancing “is a true art form,” Seyyide provides rigorous teaching with emphasis on the trunk and hips. Even if you don’t become the next belly-dancing wonder, at least you’ll pick...
Perhaps the Foreign Cultures component of the Core Program is well-intentioned—considering it was created in the 1970s in order to expose a more homogeneous student body to non-Western ways of life—however it may be time for a bit of modification. While its aims to introduce students to different cultures are still relevant, Foreign Cultures would better serve the undergraduate population by undergoing an alternation of title and mission statement...
...need to strongly encourage study abroad, to make it almost a requirement,” he said. “We must encourage students to be polyglot and amphibious...we should aim students toward non-Western cultures and toward languages with different alphabets and structures...
...evolution of Western society has not only been pushed by its non “white men” members—non-Western cultures have also continued the advancement of Western society. Scholars point to Islamic philosophy and science as deeply influencing the European Renaissance, a primary foundation of later Western thought. Much of modern science and technology draws from Arabic origins—numerals, algebra, trigonometry, navigation—as well as Chinese innovations—paper, printing and the compass. Gandhian ideals of satyagraha as expressed through the civil disobedience movements of African-Americans have further contributed...